Invisible Unicode characters?

In Unicode there are a lot of invisible, non-printable characters: regular white-space characters (e.g. U+0020 SPACE), language specific fillers (e.g. U+3164 HANGUL FILLER of the Korean Hangual alphabet), or special characters (e.g. U+2800 BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK). While all of these have a specific meaning in their natural context, they can be used in various applications that don't allow for regular whitespace characters.

Unusual Applications

While the popular game Among Us doesn't allow for an empty player name, or a name just containing regular space characters, you can copy and paste the U+3164 HANGUL FILLER when naming your player.

Send empty Whatsapp messages (instructions) using the U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK.

When copy and pasting the U+200C ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER into the title field of a Youtube video, the title becomes empty.

Send empty tweets (instructions) using the U+3164 HANGUL FILLER.

You can have an invisible TikTok nickname (instructions!) by using the U+FFFC OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER character.

Send an empty Instagram comment (instructions) using the U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE.

View invisible, non-printable characters

If you want to see what invisible, non-printable characters are contained in a block of text, you can use our decoder tool to view invisible, non-printable characters.

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List of invisible Unicode characters

U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION
U+000A LINE FEED
U+000B LINE TABULATION
U+000C FORM FEED
U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN
U+0020 SPACE
U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN
U+034F COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER
U+061C ARABIC LETTER MARK
U+115F HANGUL CHOSEONG FILLER
U+1160 HANGUL JUNGSEONG FILLER
U+1680 OGHAM SPACE MARK
U+17B4 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AQ
U+17B5 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AA
U+180B MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR ONE
U+180C MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR TWO
U+180D MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR THREE
U+180E MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
U+2000 EN QUAD
U+2001 EM QUAD
U+2002 EN SPACE
U+2003 EM SPACE
U+2004 THREE-PER-EM SPACE
U+2005 FOUR-PER-EM SPACE
U+2006 SIX-PER-EM SPACE
U+2007 FIGURE SPACE
U+2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE
U+2009 THIN SPACE
U+200A HAIR SPACE
U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE
U+200C ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER
U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
U+202A LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING
U+202B RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING
U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
U+202D LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE
U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
U+205F MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
U+2060 WORD JOINER
U+2061 FUNCTION APPLICATION
U+2062 INVISIBLE TIMES
U+2063 INVISIBLE SEPARATOR
U+2064 INVISIBLE PLUS
U+2065 Invisible operators - undefined
U+2066 LEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE
U+2067 RIGHT-TO-LEFT ISOLATE
U+2068 FIRST STRONG ISOLATE
U+2069 POP DIRECTIONAL ISOLATE
U+206A INHIBIT SYMMETRIC SWAPPING
U+206B ACTIVATE SYMMETRIC SWAPPING
U+206C INHIBIT ARABIC FORM SHAPING
U+206D ACTIVATE ARABIC FORM SHAPING
U+206E NATIONAL DIGIT SHAPES
U+206F NOMINAL DIGIT SHAPES
U+2800 BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK
U+3000 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE
U+3164 HANGUL FILLER
U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE
U+FFA0 HALFWIDTH HANGUL FILLER
U+FFF9 INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR
U+FFFA INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION SEPARATOR
U+FFFB INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION TERMINATOR
U+FFFC OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
U+133FC EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH Z015B
U+1D000 GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER BUKY
U+1D000 GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER BUKY
U+1D0F0 GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER YERU
U+1D100 GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER AZU
U+1D129 GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER YUS
U+1D130 GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER IZHITSA
U+1D13F GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER YAT
U+1D140 GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER FITA
U+1D145 GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER FITA
U+1D150 MUSICAL SYMBOL BEGIN BEAM
U+1D159 MUSICAL SYMBOL NULL NOTEHEAD
U+1D173 MUSICAL SYMBOL BEGIN BEAM
U+1D174 MUSICAL SYMBOL END BEAM
U+1D175 MUSICAL SYMBOL BEGIN TIE
U+1D176 MUSICAL SYMBOL END TIE
U+1D177 MUSICAL SYMBOL BEGIN SLUR
U+1D178 MUSICAL SYMBOL END SLUR
U+1D179 MUSICAL SYMBOL BEGIN PHRASE
U+1D17A MUSICAL SYMBOL END PHRASE

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